Pakistan is not simply “falling behind” in an AI arms race. It has adopted a deliberate and measured approach to military AI. That approach draws on decades of counterinsurgency experience and manages
The recovery of Chinese-made LoRa radios from suspected militants in Kashmir highlights how Pakistan-linked terrorist networks are adapting to evade conventional surveillance. The article examines how India could counter these off-grid communications
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Pakistan’s latest strikes inside Afghanistan mark a shift from years of diplomacy towards direct military deterrence. Islamabad argues that repeated attacks by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, alleged Afghan-based sanctuaries and unfulfilled assurances have
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Pakistan is expanding its legal machinery to deal with terrorism, introducing time-bound preventive detention and protected judicial proceedings in Balochistan and Punjab. The reforms seek to address failures in prosecuting militant suspects
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is facing its most serious terrorism crisis in more than a decade, with 1,702 terrorism-related fatalities recorded in the first nine months of 2026—the highest for the period since 2009.
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Five years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, its grip on Afghanistan remains formidable but increasingly contested. Persistent TTP attacks inside Pakistan, worsening Kabul–Islamabad tensions and the emergence of armed anti-Taliban groups
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The death of Hashim Musa, a former Pakistan Army Special Services Group commando who joined Lashkar-e-Taiba after retiring from the military, raises uncomfortable questions about the movement of trained military personnel into
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On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has returned to the center of high-level diplomatic conversation. Endorsements from Iran, the United States
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For more than two decades, Pakistan has conducted repeated counterterrorism campaigns against Taliban militants and Baloch insurgents in its western regions bordering Afghanistan and Iran. Yet the country remains caught in a
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In March 2008, Colombian jets crossed into Ecuadorian airspace and destroyed a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) encampment a mile past the border, killing the group’s second-in-command. Ecuador called it a
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There are moments in the life of a nation when the constitutional curtain falls and the stage lights reveal the true protagonist. Pakistan has reached precisely such a moment. The country’s long
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For 17-year-old Zara Shah, an encounter that began while playing a computer game developed into a frightening experience of online sexual exploitation. A stranger initially approached her as a friend before asking
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There is a particular cruelty in watching a militant group dress exploitation up as liberation. For two decades, the Baloch Liberation Army fought a low-intensity insurgency largely through men ambushes, attacks on
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The emerging maritime partnership between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port and Oman’s Sohar Port deserves attention far beyond the language of bilateral diplomacy. Pakistan and Oman are discussing an arrangement that would designate Gwadar
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Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP) remains a relatively small but persistent militant threat in Pakistan, using sectarian violence, targeted assassinations and occasional suicide attacks to exploit deep communal and political fault lines,
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Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Kalash, Bahai, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, all of whom coexist alongside the Muslim majority. From the very inception of
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